Steve Barnes

RFK Jr.'s "MAHA" movement doesn't want to eliminate chronic illness. They want to eliminate the chronically ill. Public health, modern medicine and disease mitigation will suffer under RFK Jr. because he sees sick people- not sickness- as the problem.

A couple weeks ago, I wrote that the MAHA movement does not want to eliminate chronic illness- it wants to eliminate the chronically ill. Since then, RFK Jr’s actions and statements have only reinforced my belief that his HHS will target disabled and sick ppl.

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Not sure how widespread but I know from a personal contact that UCSF has rescinded at least some offers of admissions to their PhD in Biomedical Sciences.

In honor of Black History Month 2025, RRCHNM staff and students have compiled a list of resources highlighting Black history.

Click here to view the blog post: rrchnm.org/research-and...

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Chiefs football was a salve this year. Grateful for it. Now back to the grind of caregiving that has been unrelenting for almost six months now and the hellscape that is the MAGA effort to destroy our government.

I survived a Russian torture camp. So I had to see Assad's Sednaya prison Editor's Note: Stanislav Aseyev is a Ukrainian writer, journalist, veteran, and a survivor of the Izolyatsia prison in Russia-occupied Donetsk, infamous for its torture of prisoners. He was the first ...

Stanislav Aseyev, who survived nearly three years in the torture prison Izolatysiia in Donetsk, traveled last week to Sednaya, Asad's torture prison in Syria. It's enormously important that this story be told, and enormously meaningful that it's @stanislavaseyev.bsky.social who is telling it.

January 13th in Fairfax, Va. Details and tickets at profsandpints.ticketleap.com/dcmetro/ .

What Does It Mean That Donald Trump Is a Fascist? Trump takes the tools of dictators and adapts them for the Internet. We should expect him to try to cling to power until death, and create a cult of January 6th martyrs.

"liberals struggle with the overwhelming volume of questions to be asked, answers to be offered... A fascist just has to be a storyteller. Because for fascists words do not attach to meanings, the stories don’t need... to accord with external reality."
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“It is painful beyond imagination that so many—even close loved ones—are perfectly happy to cosplay normal even if that normal involves vulnerable groups’ long-term exclusion from public spaces.”

Apparently today is the official 4 year anniversary of Covid, so as you are recalling the pain and trauma of “official” lockdowns today, please remember that disabled ppl are still in isolation, with no end date. You may feel it’s over, but your burden actually just shifted to us, on top of our own.

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Impact of community mask mandates on SARS-CoV-2 transmission in Ontario after adjustment for differential testing by age and sex Abstract. Mask use for prevention of respiratory infectious disease transmission is not new but has proven controversial during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. In Onta

This paper is out for real now. Mask mandates saved thousands of lives and hundreds of millions of dollars in Ontario in 2020

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This one barman had deeper insights into the risk of Nazi normalization than the GOP

Senator calls LGBTQ+ people 'filth,' says most don't want them here A state senator said during a public forum in Tahlequah that LGBTQ+ people are "filth," and that he and his constituents don't want them in "our state."

A state Senator in Oklahoma responded to a question about the death of Nex Benedict with hate speech targeting the queer community.

"We are going to fight it to keep that filth out of the state of Oklahoma," State Senator Tom Woods said.

This is how Republicans respond when a child dies?

Today marks two years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. It has meant two years of violence and destruction for the Ukrainian people, which we have documented through open sources 🧵

Photo shows a celebrating Steve with a temporary forehead tattoo reading “Ruth is 90” all smiles and arm in arm with the fabulous Ruth herself.

Spent a wonderful evening celebrating the 90th birthday of a dear and fabulous friend. Much love and laughter.

It would be wrong to see this as just a prudish or Victorian or even sincerely religious attitude about sex. It’s about control. It’s about the authority of the state intruding into more and more parts of life, and about making more and more people complicit in the abuse of power.
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Yes. And we need to understand why. Griswold established an expansive right to privacy. It created a prophylactic between the state and ourselves. The fascist project is to obliterate privacy so that the state can permeate and interfere in all aspects of our lives.

«Богом забытая земля» Пытки, убийство и заметание следов в ИК-3 в Харпе. Тут погиб Алексей Навальный

Grisly stories from the prison where Navalny died: an inmate was tortured to death in July 2022 by being wrapped in mattresses and suffocated. Guards also use hot and cold “boxes,” and medical care is absent until men are literary bleeding to death from their asses.

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Yuck. Bot accounts are spreading a clearly AI-generated “audio recording” of Navalny’s mother trash-talking Alexey’s widow, Yulia. This is how low Navalny’s adversaries will stoop in the aftermath of his murder in the Russian prison system.

U.S. President Joe Biden met with Alexey Navalny’s widow, Yulia, and daughter, Dasha. “Alexey’s legacy of courage will live on in Yulia and Dasha, and the countless people across Russia fighting for democracy and human rights,” Biden wrote. meduza.io/en/short/202...

Can't make this up: education officials in Russia’s Ulyanovsk region have instructed local schools to use Tucker Carlson's Putin interview to teach critical thinking skills and media literacy. They say it will also cultivate greater optimism in Russia’s future. t.me/news_sirena/...

US e-book lending boom pits US publishers against libraries | Context Publishers and libraries at odds as rise of e-book lending raises challenges over digital rights, access issues

The tension between publishers and libraries over e-book lending has real-world consequences for library budgets, responsible use of public funds, and lasting concerns about preservation of our published record. Learn more: www.context.news/ai/us-e-book...

Founding-Era History Doesn’t Support Trump’s Immunity Claim Historians Rosemarie Zagarri and Holly Brewer explain the anti-monarchical origins of the Constitution and the presidency.

Founding Era historians weigh in on Trump's claim that presidents are absolutely immune from criminal prosecution in this new, wide-ranging Q&A.

In short, the notion's laughable as a matter of history.

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@brennancenter.bsky.social @earlymodjustice.bsky.social

Russia Issues Chilling Warnings to Navalny’s Widow The name of Alexey Navalny was taboo across Russian state media for years preceding his death. No longer.

Russia Issues Chilling Warnings to Navalny’s Widow, Yulia Navalnaya

The Kremlin-decorated state TV host Vladimir Solovyov maligned Alexei Navalny and then threatened his widow: "The same fate awaits Navalnaya!"

My latest for @CEPA
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The newspaper Sobesednik reportedly lost about 300k rubles ($3,260) in sales revenue when Moscow authorities confiscated its latest edition with a cover page featuring Navalny. A serious blow given the lack of advertising revenue available these days. t.me/bloodysx/34026

Roman Golovanov says prison was the safest place for Alexei Navalny

Host Roman Golovanov argued that Russian prison was the best place for Alexei Navalny, where he could safely die of natural causes—but if he was killed, then the West did it, and anyone who thinks the Kremlin is responsible is a psychotic schizophrenic.
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in the past 24 hours I've become entirely committed to the concept of "Northwest Asia"

Soul-searching and recriminations after teen’s death in Oklahoma Tenth-grader Nex Benedict, who had been bullied because of their gender identity, died a day after a bathroom altercation in their Oklahoma high school.

"A hotline run by the Indianapolis-based Rainbow Youth Project received 237 calls from Oklahoma over the weekend, nearly three times what it logs in an average week. Two-thirds of the callers mentioned Nex’s death. More than 80% said they were victims of bullying at school or on social media."

"The results may provide useful answers for faculty members and administrators trying to address the concerns of students, parents, and state legislators." bit.ly/49khLSb

Why aren't the Washington Post and New York Times ed-boards calling for James Comer to resign?

Chair of Oversight moved forward with sham impeachment with key witness now arrested for lying, and connected to Russian intelligence.

Should be blowing up everywhere.